We are shocked and saddened to hear that the art historian and critic Kathryn Hixson, who spoke with Anne Wilson on the last day of our conference, has passed away. If you are interested in attending her December 14th memorial, please let Jennifer Cohen know by December 7th. In lieu of flowers, the family requests [...]
Edgar Garcia, who will be on the second panel on Thursday, has asked that we pre-circulate a travel essay by Ezra Pound that is not in wide circulation. You can find it here: http://www.library.yale.edu/~nkuhl/YCALStudentWork/EdgarGarcia/PoundBookNews.pdf
Please follow the “Schedule” link on the right hand side of the blog home page for our final list of panels. See you soon!
Bersani has requested that we screen a film in preparation for his keynote address. The film is not available through Netflix, so please try to make it to the screening. The screening will take place in Cobb 307 on Wednesday, Oct. 20th from 10:30am-12:30pm.
Our submissions committee is reading through the many many responses we received to our CFP. Thank you all for your interest and are moving as quickly as we can to get acceptances prepared. On another note, we’d also like to announce that Tom Mitchell, Lauren Berlant, Aden Kumler, and Leo Bersani have each confirmed for [...]
Due to a mistake in some of the emails sent out announcing the deadline extension, we will accept abstracts until the 30th of July, 2010. But we won’t mind if you get it in before then. Promise.
Call for Papers and Creative Proposals: Communicating Forms: Aesthetics, Relationality, Collaboration Fifth Annual English Graduate Conference, University of Chicago A joint conference between English Language & Literature and Art History Proposal deadline extended to July 20, 2010 October 21-22 Keynote speaker: Leo Bersani “A modern reflection on being must be aware of itself not as [...]
